Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Consumer - Advanced Trading)

Coinbase, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend for the Advanced Trading team. You will own the front-end roadmap across web and mobile, shaping architecture and delivering low-latency trading interfaces for experienced traders.

You will drive performance improvements, mentor senior engineers, and partner with Product and Engineering to translate priorities into impactful features while promoting scalable frontend practices in a growing team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of mobile software engineering experience (iOS or Android).
• Proven UI performance optimization across rendering and network use.
• Experience defining architectural strategy for multi-quarter initiatives.
• Mentoring senior engineers and raising delivery velocity.

Responsibilities

• Own the frontend roadmap for Coinbase Advanced across web and mobile.
• Drive performance improvements for rendering, network efficiency, and state management.
• Lead end-to-end multi-quarter technical initiatives with high standards.
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical decision-making within the team.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to translate business priorities into technical plans.
• Shape frontend practices to scale with a growing team.

Skills

Mobile development

Frontend architecture

Performance optimization

Cross-platform fluency

Mentoring engineers

Low-latency systems

Generative AI usage

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? AtCoinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”learn more about working at Coinbase.

As a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend on the Advanced Trading team within the Consumer & Business group, you'll lead the front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced, our trading platform for experienced traders. You'll own the performance, reliability, and scalability of our web and mobile trading clients, driving low-latency interfaces that serve traders across multiple instrument types. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of crypto, trading infrastructure, and consumer product, where your technical leadership will shape both the platform and the engineering team building it.

What you'll do:

• Own the front-end technical roadmap for Coinbase Advanced, defining architecture decisions that enable a reliable, scalable trading platform across web and mobile
• Drive measurable performance improvements across rendering, network efficiency, and state management to deliver a low-latency trading experience
• Lead complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives end-to-end, setting and enforcing high standards for code quality, system design, and engineering rigor
• Strengthen the engineering team through hands-on mentorship of senior engineers, elevating technical decision‑making and fostering growth across the subteam
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate business priorities into actionable technical plans and ship high-impact features
• Shape front-end engineering practices and patterns that scale with a growing team, establishing conventions that accelerate development velocity

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of iOS or Android mobile software engineering experience (Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android), with working proficiency in the other platform; willingness to develop cross‑platform fluency, as engineers on this team own both iOS and Android.
• Proven track record optimizing complex UI systems for performance, including rendering optimization, network efficiency, and state management at scale
• Experience leading technical strategy for a product area, including architecture decisions, trade‑off analysis, and cross‑team alignment for multi‑quarter initiatives
• Demonstrated success mentoring senior engineers and driving measurable improvements in team engineering standards and delivery velocity
• Familiarity with high‑availability, low‑latency systems (trading platforms, financial systems, or real‑time data applications preferred)
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding bonus):: $218,025 USD - $256,500 USD

• Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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